Re: Inconsistent slave performance after optimize

2010-10-28 Thread Mason Hale
rgument, and they went away never to come back (which I guess is a clue > about what was causing the slowdown, but the JVM still confuses me). > Will do. Thanks for the tip. Mason > ____ > From: Mason Hale [masonh...@gmail.com] > Sent: Wednesda

Re: Inconsistent slave performance after optimize

2010-10-27 Thread Mason Hale
On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 7:18 PM, Ken Krugler wrote: > Normally I'd say like you were getting into swap hell, but based on your > settings you only have 5GB of JVM space being used, on a 16GB box. > > Just to confirm, nothing else is using lots of memory, right? And the "top" > command isn't showin

Re: Inconsistent slave performance after optimize

2010-10-27 Thread Mason Hale
lrconfig > mergeFactor set to 10, then optimize 'maxSegments=8' will roll up the very > smallest segments. This allows you to have a gradual optimization (and > replication overhead) instead of big ones. > > > Mason Hale wrote: > >> Hello esteemed Solr community --

Inconsistent slave performance after optimize

2010-10-26 Thread Mason Hale
Hello esteemed Solr community -- I'm observing some inconsistent performance on our slave servers after recently optimizing our master server. Our configuration is as follows: - all servers are hosted at Amazon EC2, running Ubuntu 8.04 - 1 master with heavy insert/update traffic, about 1